Peter Freeman lives on Salt Spring Island on the west coast of Canada. He writes nonfiction and fiction novels, screen and stage plays, short stories, magazine articles, and poetry.

Peter grew up in what was once the sleepy fishing village of Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, just south of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. He started his career as a cadet surveyor and then as a journeyman fitter and turner before focusing on computer science at the University of Tasmania.

While in Hobart, Peter joined the local rock climbing club, where he later met Max Dorfligger, a carpenter, shipwright, and famous Swiss mountaineer. Peter sailed across the Tasman Sea with Max in the thirty-two-foot sloop, Sunshine, that Max had built to New Zealand, where Peter then spent the next few years driving trains and building his sailboat, Laiviņa.

Eventually, Peter sailed from New Zealand to Australia and then to Canada, where he incorporated an Information Technology company that produced and sold scientific and business software to universities, governments, and the private sector.

In 1984, Peter departed Victoria, British Columbia, to sail his thirty-two-foot sloop, Laiviņa, on a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, breaking the existing world record with a time of 236 days. His book, Cape Horn Birthday, is an account of this journey.

Peter is a masters athlete who has represented Canada internationally in world championships, competing in Italy, South Africa, Australia, the USA, and Canada, and has won gold, silver, and bronze medals in these competitions in the 100, 200, 400, and 800 metre events. In 2003, at 51, Peter was ranked 11^th in the world and 1^st in Canada in the 400-metre event for his time in Puerto Rico of 55.10 seconds.

Peter has twice ridden his bicycle across Canada and, at the age of 61, bicycled the 15,400 kilometres around the perimeter of Australia, unsupported, in 79 days, averaging 200 kilometres a day.

His colourful history has given him an endless vault of story ideas to write about, as his publishing experience illustrates:

Awards

Winner – 2019 The Fieldstone Review‘s literary prize – “Hidden Message”
Shortlist Winner Nominees: “In the Waiting Room” – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award – Best Short Stories
Finalist – “Last Beating” – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award – Best Poem
Finalist – “One Arm Paddy” – Best of 2020 Adelaide Literary Award – Best Poem

Published

Newspapers

Around the Harbour

Columns

Baggy Wrinkle
Dear Salty

Articles

Classic Boat Festival
The Tall Ships are Alive and Well
The Fate of the Maruffa
From Lahaina With Love

Books

Novels

Deadly Delivery – 363 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
The Silenced Boy – 266 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
Fleeing the 51st State – 274 pages – Tablet Publications, Vancouver, BC – 2025
The Worm Lady’s Daughter – 256 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025

Nonfiction

Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation – 348 pages – Seaworthy Publications Inc. FL – 2018

Short Stories

Elements: Thirteen Stories2^nd Ed) – 305 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025

Screen and Stage Plays

Alchemy Alive: Twelve Screen and Stage Plays – Fiction – 382 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2021

Anthologies

In the Waiting Room – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award – Short Stories – Adelaide Books, New York.
Last Beating – Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award – Poetry – Adelaide Books, New York.

Poetry

Growth: Life’s Flow in Poetry (2^nd Ed – #1 Growth series) – 141 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025
Regrowth: Reaching for the Poetic Sky (#2 Growth series) – 119 pages – Ensilwood Publishing, SSI – 2025

Individual

Poetry

Voice – Dissident Voice

Short Fiction

Hidden Message” – The Fieldstone Review – 2,917 words

Publish-Ready

Children

- How the Rainbow Got its Colours – 4,070 words – Typeset
- Mila-Kate and the Blue Butterfly – 3,842 words – Typeset
- Summer Sleuths
  - #1 The Case of the Ghostly Granny – 10,721 words – Typeset

Projects Underway

Nonfiction

Circumclyclution: Around Australia in 80 Odd Days – 843 pages; 338,441 words

Poetry

Outgrowth: Emerging from the Poetic Chrysalis (#3 Growth series) – (50% complete)

Children

Summer Sleuths (Series)
- #2 The Case of the Missing Medallion
- #3 The Case of the Meandering Mare
- #4 The Case of the Baffling Bones

Fiction

Soul Mates – (15,000 of ~90,000 words) – First Draft
Mrs Flookumpoocher Lives Inside My Head – (7,000 of ~90,000 words) – First Draft
Infinity Farm – (18,000 of ~90,000 words) – First Draft